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Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project

From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>
To: Duncan Sands <duncan dot sands at math dot u-psud dot fr>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Fu, Chao-Ying" <fu at mips dot com>, "Thekkath, Radhika" <radhika at mips dot com>, "Stephens, Nigel" <nigel at mips dot com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:38:46 +0200
Subject: Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
References: <3CB54817FDF733459B230DD27C690CEC012BB135@Exchange.mips.com> <200609220924.28577.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>

> > We are working on a project to add fixed-point arithmetic support to GCC.
> > A GCC project description page is available here 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FixedPointArithmetic
> > and we will create a GCC branch in the near future. If you have 
> > any suggestions or comments, please respond.
> 
> I expect the Ada front-end people will be interested: the Ada language
> incorporates binary and decimal fixed point types.  AFAIK, it is all
> done using emulation at the moment.

Not sure what you mean by "emulation". The implementation provided in
GNAT is indeed a full implementation of Ada fixed point semantics.

It can probably be used either as a reference implementation, or as a base for
comparison (e.g. correctness comparison).

Arno

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